Mission:

Teaching - by creating and offering an innovative Liver Focused Medical Education Program to Brazilian and international medical doctors; and

Research - by qualifying young doctors and working coordinately with Brazilian and/or international partners.

The Gastroenterology Division at HCPA:

The Gastroenterology (GI) Division, which consists of six professors from the UFRGS Internal Medicine Department and six gastroenterologists from the HCPA staff, is dedicated to the quality care of adult patients. HCPA offers government-board recognized fellowship programs in Gastroenterology, Digestive Endoscopy and Hepatology. The Endoscopy Unit, Digestive Motility Laboratory and Adult Liver Transplant Program (since 1996) are part of the Division (see below Figure 1). HCPA’s Pediatric Gastroenterology Division, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program, Radiology Division and Pathology Division specialized teams often work together with the GI Division team.

The Outpatient Clinic is divided into five specialized ambulatories: Hepatitis (GHE), Chronic Hepatitis (GHC), HIV/Hepatitis Co-infection (GHI), Liver Transplant (GTH), and Liver Transplant Recipients (GPT). Currently, In-patient Liver Clinic is responsible for more than half of the whole number of admittances in the GI Division.

The Hepatology Outpatient Clinic is responsible for over 6,000 consultations a year, specifically with patients diagnosed with viral hepatitis (co-infected and with HIV) and liver transplant candidates or recipients. HCPA Hepatology Inpatient Clinic is devoted to decompensate cirrhosis and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. It was responsible for more than 800 admissions in 2011. Moreover, since 1995 the HCPA Liver Unit is dedicated to adult and pediatric Liver Transplantation. Many papers that have been published nationally and internationally in important international peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet have derived from the HCPA Liver Unit.

Further Information:

If you are interested in attending courses or would like information regarding specific course offerings or electives, please contact the Training Center Secretary for this Center at the email address listed above. To view further information about the Training Center, click on the Information Package below.

Attention Hepatologists!!!

The below course, Liver Practice for Hepatologists – Brazil/Portugal Colaborative Clinical and Pathological Course, is now available for Portuguese spoken countries. This course is part of the Official Scientific Agenda of the WGO Porto Alegre Hepatology Training Center, and is sponsored by the WGO.

The WGO wishes to acknowledge the following for their support and sponsorship of the WGO Porto Alegre Hepatology Training Center: Federacão Brasiliera de Gastroenterologia (FBG), Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre.